Carter / Asakawa - Flow of Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, Germany's youngest top orchestra, is releasing a new album on GENUIN. Under the direction of Wolfgang Hentrich, the young musicians perform the wonderfully elegiac String Serenade by Antonín Dvorák and an energetic Marimba Concerto by the Brazilian Ney Rosauro with the fabulous Alexej Gerassimez. Moreover, the features the world premiere recording of a work by Dietrich Zöllner explicitly composed for the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, which presents the orchestra's virtuosity, sonority, and, as it states in the booklet, the Inchhidden talentsInch of it's members in the most fitting way. Surprises are guaranteed!

World-renowned Baroque guitarist William Carter presents an appealing collection of early works by Spanish guitar virtuoso and composer Fernando Sor. Carter believes Sor's guitar music is some of the finest ever written for the instrument. Fernando Sor Early Works includes three large-scale works, interspersed with shorter pieces, which are charming and intimate with a strong Spanish flavor. Carter employs a performance practice endorsed by Sor himself- playing without fingernails- making this a truly unique recording. Carter's use of his fingertips delivers wider dynamic contrasts and a softer, more subtle sound. This is the premiere recording of Sor's early works to explore this performance practice. Carter's recording is a blend of his incredible knowledge of the instrument and composer, his extensive research and endless hours of perfecting his technique.

Kinan Azmeh is an outstanding soloist and composer of our time. Hailed as Inchintensely soulfulInch and a InchvirtuosoInch by The New York Times and InchspellbindingInch by The New Yorker, Winner of Opus Klassik award in 2019 clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has gained international recognition for what the CBC has called his Inchincredibly rich soundInch and his distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres. Originally from Damascus, Syria, Kinan Azmeh brings his music to all corners of the world as a soloist, composer and improviser. Notable appearances include the Opera Bastille, Paris; Tchaikovsky Grand Hall, Moscow; Carnegie Hall and the UN General Assembly, New York; the Royal Albert Hall, London; Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Philharmonie, Berlin; the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Washington DC; the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie; and in his native Syria at the opening concert of the Damascus Opera House. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Duesseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the West- Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syrian Symphony Orchestra among others, and has shared the stage with such musical luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, John McLaughlin, Francois Rabbath Aynur and Jivan Gasparian. FLOW presents Kinan's music in fantastic arrangements of Wolf Kerschek, played by the legendary NDR Bigband. The recording was one of the first studio recordings that took place after the first lockdown in 2020, followed by two successful concerts in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie.